The PADI Open Water
course teaches student divers the
foundational knowledge and skills they
need to dive with a buddy, without
supervision.

PADI Open
Water Divers are qualified to:
Dive with a buddy without supervision
while applying the knowledge and skills
learned in this learning track, within the
limits of their training and experience.

Plan,
conduct and log open water no stop (no
decompression) dives when properly
equipped and when accompanied by a buddy
in conditions with which they have
training and or experience. Get air fills,
scuba equipment and other services.

Continue
their dive training with a specialty dive
(Adventure Dive), in the PADI Adventures
in Diving program or in PADI specialty
courses.

The
ultimate diving adventure teaches deep
diving, navigation and includes three
adventure dives.

The PADI
Advanced open water program is based on
the premise that diving is a means to
explore other interests. Once comfortable
with basic skills, divers want to conquer
new challenges, see different creatures,
journey into diverse environments and
experience new adventures.

Learn
what you should do during a dive accident,
only available if you previously have the
Emergency First Response Certification.

The PADI
Rescue Diver course is an important and
critical step in broadening a diverís
knowledge and experience beyond a
strictly-hobby level. Rescue divers learn
to look beyond themselves to consider the
safety and well-being of other divers.
This is why the PADI Rescue Diver rating
is a prerequisite for all PADI leadership
training (Dive master, Assistant
Instructor and Open Water Scuba
Instructor).

Rescue
diver training prepares student divers to
help prevent problems and, if needed, to
manage dive emergencies using several
techniques. The course is designed to be
challenging, though realistic, content and
approach. Although the nature and context
in which rescue training might be used is
serious, the course will be enjoyable and
builds diver confidence.

The PADI
Dive master course expands the problem
solving concepts developed by the PADI
Rescue Diver program, and expands it from
accident management and prevention
scenarios to supervisory situations with
student divers and certified divers.

At the
dive master level, problem-solving
stresses looking for many possible answers
under the circumstances and choosing the
best of them all. Dive master
problem-solving may include more than
issues related to safety including
customer service, business and operational
challenges.